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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Top 5 Ghost Ships

5. The Octavius
Although it is now considered more legend than anything, the story of
the Octavius remains one of the most famous of all ghost ship stories.
The tale dates back to 1775, when it is said that a whaling ship called
the Herald stumbled across the Octavius floating aimlessly off the coast
of Greenland. Crewmembers from the Herald boarded the Octavius, where
they discovered the bodies of the crew and passengers all frozen solid
by the arctic cold. Most notably, the crew found the ship’s captain
still sitting at his desk, midway through finishing a log entry from
1762, which meant the Octavius had been adrift for 13 years. According
to the legend, it was eventually discovered that the captain had gambled
on making a quick return to England from the Orient via the Northwest
Passage, but that the ship had become trapped in the ice. If true, this
would mean the Octavius had completed its passage to the Atlantic as a
ghost ship, its crew and captain long dead from exposure to the
elements.4. The Joyita
The Joyita was a fishing and charter boat that was found abandoned in
the South Pacific in 1955. The ship, along with its 25 passengers and
crew, were en route to the Tokelau Islands when something happened, and
it was not until hours later that the Joyita was reported overdue and a
rescue attempt launched. A massive air search was undertaken, but it
failed to find the missing ship, and it was not until five weeks later
that a merchant ship stumbled upon the Joyita drifting some 600 miles
off its original course. There was no sign of any of the passengers,
crew, cargo, or life rafts, and the ship was damaged and listing quite
badly to one side. Further inspection by authorities found that the
ship’s radio was tuned to the universal distress signal, and a search of
the deck uncovered a doctor’s bag and several bloody bandages. None of
the crew or passengers was ever seen again, and the mystery of what
happened has never been revealed. The most popular theory is that
pirates killed the passengers and threw their bodies overboard, but
other claims have included everything from mutiny and kidnapping to
insurance fraud.3. The Lady Lovibond
The UK has a long tradition of legends about ghost ships, and of
these the Lady Lovibond is perhaps the most famous. As the story goes,
the Lady Lovibond’s captain, Simon Peel, had just gotten married, and
decided to take his ship out on a cruise to celebrate. He brought his
new bride along—going against a longstanding seafaring belief that
bringing a woman on board a boat is bad luck—and set sail on Feb. 13,
1748. Unfortunately for Peel, his first mate was also in love with his
new wife, and after watching the celebrations, the man became
overwhelmed with rage and jealousy and intentionally steered the boat
into the deadly Goodwind Sands, a sand bar notorious for causing ship
wrecks. The Lady Lovibond sank, killing all those aboard. As the legend
goes, ever since the wreck the Lady Lovibond can be seen sailing the
waters around Kent every 50 years. It was sighted in 1798 by a few
different ship captains, as well as in 1848 and 1898, when it supposedly
appeared to be so real that some boats, thinking it a vessel in
distress, actually sent out life rafts to help it. The Lady Lovibond was
again seen in 1948, and while there were no confirmed sightings on its
most recent anniversary in 1998, it continues to be one of the most
well-known ghost ship legends in Europe.2. The Mary Celeste
Undoubtedly the most famous of all the real-life ghost ships, the
Mary Celeste was a merchant ship that was found derelict and adrift in
the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. The ship was in a seaworthy condition, with
all its sails still up and a full store of food in its cargo hold, but
its life boat, captain’s log book and, more importantly, the entire
crew, had mysteriously vanished. There was no sign of a struggle, and
the personal belongings of the crew and cargo of over 1500 barrels of
alcohol were untouched, seemingly ruling out piracy as a possible
explanation. In the years since its bizarre discovery, a number of
theories have been proposed regarding the possible fate of the Mary
Celeste’s crew. These include that those aboard were killed by a
waterspout, that the crew mutinied, or even that eating flour
contaminated with fungus led all the passengers to hallucinate and go
mad. The most probable theory remains that a storm or some kind of
technical issue led the crew to prematurely abandon the ship in the
lifeboat, and that they later died at sea. Still, the mystery
surrounding the Mary Celeste has led to much wild speculation, and
others have proposed everything from ghosts to sea monsters and alien
abduction as possible explanations.1. The Flying Dutchman
In maritime folklore, no ghost ship is more famous than the Flying
Dutchman, which has inspired numerous paintings, horror stories, films,
and even an opera. The ship was first mentioned in the late 1700s in
George Barrington’s seafaring book Voyage to Botany Bay, and since then
its legend has continued to grow, thanks to numerous sightings of it by
fisherman and sailors. As the story goes, the Flying Dutchman was a
vessel out of Amsterdam that was captained by a man named Van der
Decken. The ship was making its way toward the East Indies when it
encountered dangerous weather near the Cape of Good Hope. Determined to
make the crossing, Van der Decken supposedly went mad, murdered his
first mate, and vowed that he would cross the Cape, “even if God would
let me sail to Judgment Day!” Despite his best efforts, the ship sank in
the storm, and as the legend goes, Van der Decken and his ghost ship
are now cursed to sail the oceans for all eternity. To this day, the
Flying Dutchman continues to be one of the most-sighted of all ghost
ships, and people from deep-sea fishermen to the Prince of Wales have
all claimed to have spotted it making its never-ending voyage across the
oceans.source